Recognitions, February 3

Adrian Altshuler, alumnus and now an attorney in Franklin, Tennessee, has established two scholarships, each providing $3,000 per year to a UT student in the Tennessee Pledge Program.

Staff members from the Division of Enrollment Management visited Gatlinburg-Pittman High School to meet with 20 seniors who have been admitted to UT for the fall and replace admissions items they may have lost in the recent wildfires such as their bags with admissions packets, pens, future Vol buttons with their names, and the highly prized Welcome to Rocky Top musical cards.

Tom Heffernan, retiring director of the UT Humanities Center, has been honored by the naming of a new endowment that will support the academic pursuits of graduate students in the humanities after him.